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ArticlePhysics in medicine and biology2024

On the implementation of acollinearity in PET Monte Carlo simulations.

Maxime Toussaint, Francis Loignon-Houle, Étienne Auger, Gabriel Lapointe, Jean-Pierre Dussault, Roger Lecomte

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Article in Physics in medicine and biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Time-of-Flight Requirements to Mitigate Blurring Induced by Annihilation Photon Acollinearity.IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Maxime ToussaintSherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center of CRCHUS and Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3402-8186
Francis Loignon-HouleInstituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (I3M), Centro Mixto CSIC-Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8931-2016
Étienne AugerIR&T Inc., Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Gabriel LapointeIndependent researcher, Shefford, Québec, Canada.
Jean-Pierre DussaultDepartment of Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Roger LecomteSherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center of CRCHUS and Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8541-0783

Funding

Ultra High Resolution Brain PET Scanner for in-vivo Autoradiography ImagingU01EB027003 · NIBIB · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI EL FAKHRI, GEORGES, FONTAINE, RÉJEAN · 2018 to 2022
$4.6M
NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB027003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Monte Carlo MethodPositron-Emission TomographyImage Processing, Computer-AssistedNormal DistributionPhotonsacollinearityMonte Carlo simulationpositron emission tomographyspatial resolution

Identifiers

PMID39159667
PMCPMC13007289

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